Sentence examples for control of the king from inspiring English sources
Each age set constituted a unit of the Zulu army and was stationed away from home at royal barracks under direct control of the king.
Fernando's sons, Henry and John of Navarre, tried to gain control of the king and the organs of government, but Luna successfully thwarted their schemes.
Morocco's courts have historically been weak and under the control of the king and his Justice Ministry, which determines judges' salaries and appointments so that they will often rule as instructed for the sake of their careers.
Henry IV of England was committed to the recovery of English rights in France; moreover, in a civil war between Louis I, duc d'Orléans, and John the Fearless (duke of Burgundy since 1404) over control of the king, both parties sought English support.
In 1386 Gloucester and his associates later known as the appellants took virtual control of the king's government.
The vice-gerency brought the pace of reforms under the control of the king.
The Maloofs took over full control of the Kings in 1999, not long after the league had instituted a salary cap that enabled small-market teams like theirs to hold onto their best players without bankrupting themselves.
In the middle of this period, through a process of conquest, consolidation and treaty, the boundaries of Scotland were gradually extended from a small area under direct control of the kings of Alba in the east, to almost its modern borders.
It was possible that had the botched attempt at killing the queen succeeded and had Atholl taken control of the young king then his attempted coup might have succeeded.
In the ensuing turmoil three rival families the Crichtons, the Livingstons, and the Douglases fought to gain control of the young king.
The first applied all recent English public laws to Ireland; the second and more famous one subjected the meetings and legislative drafts of the Irish Parliament to the control of the English king and of his English council (but not of the English Parliament).
